- Man Booker Prize Winner, Aging, Widowers, Death
Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family.
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and intimate.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John Banville
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Nhã Nam, Howes
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, English, und, vie
- ISBN
- 9781447249498
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First sentence
“They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.”
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